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Nutrition and diet during pregnancy and lactation
The life stages of increased growth or synthesis are the first two years of life, adolescence, pregnancy and lactation.Nutritional requirements depend on the growth rate and are higher in these periods of rapid growth.They are called vulnerable period, because there is less chance of adapting to a deficit and because the gaps produce a greater biological impact.
In pregnancy there is an increase in weight of approximately 400 grams.week, higher than that observed in the period of greatest growth in adolescence.Breastfeeding in turn has increased nutritional requirements for milk production.
During pregnancy and lactation there is an increase in the needs of almost all nutrients in varying proportions for each of them.Exceptions include vitamin A requirement which does not increase during pregnancy and iron hand in infancy does not increase with respect to adult women of childbearing age.
Increases ranging between 15% and 220% energy in folic acid (folate).For most nutrients, the differences with non-pregnant women are about 20 to 40%.Stage of lactation has the greatest needs of most nutrients, except folate and iron are higher in pregnancy. Read the rest of this entry »
Diet in pregnancy
Ideally, the mother is prepared several months before conception folic acid supplements, you eat twice as nutrients but without duplicating their caloric intake and, at most, increase your intake by 300 calories a day to compensate for increased organic demand is pregnant.
Weight gain in pregnancy should not exceed 13 kilos, but neither should be obsessed with it, because pregnancy is not the best time to lose weight.
“Healthy food equals healthy pregnancy. If you are expecting a baby does not “eat” two, “Eat for two.” These are two of the key messages that doctors and nutritionists try to transfer pregnant women to ensure their quality of life and the future of girl or boy.
A pregnant woman should control the food you eat to make sure that your child is healthy and she will not win too many “extra kilos, so hard that after removing the body and belly.
It is vital to begin healthy pregnancy, so experts recommend taking folic acid supplements from the very moment when one thinks of having children.
“During pregnancy, food can not miss the bread, cereals and potatoes-the best in his grain varieties, which should represent 70 percent of our diet,” explains Dr. Ignacio Ferrando, Director of Medical Programs Sanitas medical insurance company.
He is an expert stresses the importance of fruits and vegetables, remember to be taken at least five servings a day and fruit juice only counts as one serving, and explains that the key to keeping a perfect pregnancy is to make as balanced a diet possible.
These are the dietary advice of Dr. Ferrando to get along in pregnancy:
• Bring a complete and balanced diet. You have to eat everything: meat, fish, eggs, nuts and legumes, which are food sources of protein, vitamins and minerals. We recommend that you regularly consume milk and fresh dairy products, which provide calcium and protein, although their versions can be picked low in calories or fat.
• Watch out for sugar. Although “nobody minds a sweet”, if you are expecting a child will be better to wait to have the baby because, like fats, sweets should be minimally consumed during pregnancy. Though a couple of chocolates as an occasional reward nor do any harm.
• Control weight. What that during pregnancy “should be eating for two” is not entirely an urban legend. Yes, instead of two chocolates, a woman eats four wins that overweight by then so hard to discard. As a rule, the weight gain in pregnancy should not exceed 13 kilos, but neither should be obsessed with it. Pregnancy is not the best time to lose weight, unless the physician indicates otherwise. The recommended calorie intake is around 2,000 to the last three months of pregnancy.